ILX without the internet - when will it be possible?

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Sometimes when I'm doing lane-swimming or making my bed at night or something, I think about ILX and pretend I'm posting comments and such. The only trouble is, I have been away from this place for so long that my inner ILX monologue is stuck in a previous era of ILX-ness, and I can hardly remember any of the threads.

I'm thinking to myself things like: "was that Skottie who said not to drink bleach before or after drinking tea? ho ho ho... which peanuts character was Jess Harvell? What was Maria's opinion on nailpolish?"

A while ago I printed out a whole thread, the poetry feet and rhyme thing, because it looked interesting, and I had it next to my bed to read when I had time and I read it and I liked it. Especially since I accidentally printed it in full colour, it sort of looked a bit like the real thing. When I got to the end, I nearly wrote a response at the bottom, but then I realised that would be dumb, because nobody but me would see it and more comments would have already been posted anyway.

ILX is always in my mind, will I ever make it back here? It seems so hard to get back into it. This is not really a question. Hi everyone!

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - this happens to me

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Just as soon as the government finishes implanting the HIVEMIND chips in our BRANES.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and hi rainy!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

wow hi rainy!

― david. (Cozen), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hi rainy!!!

do come back but use it wisely (half an hour a day: it will be better this way).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We've missed you Rainy! Make it back if you can.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I would love ILX to carry on by post after the internet is got rid of.

Is more rainy forecast?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

which peanuts character was Jess Harvell?

sally, obv

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I just drunk some IPA from a can, rainy and it was horrible.

Did anyone else find it kinda sad when they posted their message to rainy only to be greeted with 'e-mail notifications will be sent promptly'? :(

― athos magnani (Cozen), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I long for the day when ILX is a selective neural implant. Then I'll be able to control your minds. And I'll be able to make you forget that I'm controlling them. Mwahahahahahah.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought you were doing this already Andrew!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Megayay for the Rainy, the Smart and Kind. :-) So long as it would be one of those chips you could turn on and off at will as opposed to continuous commentary, bring it on. Trusting Andrew to run me would give me the fear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

now that I'm here I'm caught in this sweaty frenzy of typing and then quickly deleting my unsent posts. This is SO HARD.

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I sort of forgot about the emotional turmoil that comes with posting to ILX, even if you're just talking about something mundane.

Maybe it's not time constraints and always having to pop off and photograph some hideous invertabrate or wrap up dinosaur bones or make educational videos about magnets that's stopping me.

Maybe its that I'm not emotionally robust enough.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

but then on the other hand, maybe I would feel happier if I was here with you all more, and therefore feel tougher.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to think this over while I do some filenaming.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

hi rainy!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway yes plz come back, but do limit your usage so you dont end up like the rest of us.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"the usual gang of idiots"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Do not neural implant if you hate us.

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Post whenever you feel comfortable and don't fret about it all. And tell Di we all say hi!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't worry about what you post, rainy. Our emotions are all a construct of my unstable mind anyway!

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not really fretting. I didn't mean for this to be a "tell me to come back" thread, though it's fantastic to be welcomed back by old pals.

I just am wondering all the time these days how to reconcile different parts of my life. When I'm sleeping I want to be awake, when I'm watching music videos I want to be listening to CD's when I'm walking I want to be driving, when I'm making my bed I want to be down at the pub getting drunk.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i would pretty much like to be anywhere i'm not at any given moment.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

what fiddo said, except maybe an egg factory.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i wouldn't really want to be in an ebola ward either.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

why do you make your bed at night? aren't you just going to mess it up when you go to sleep?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

rainy is a bat

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Kick and thrash about at night a lot so I need to start with a well made bed or all hell breaks looses at three am. Thrashing and kicking about a lot at night = "not a morning person" = no time to make bed in the morning.

haha I am so back in the swing of this!

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like the best vision of hell breaking loose ever.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

n. dont make her leave already

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no - that sounds perverted or something. It wasn't meant to. I just mean it would be kind of funny, compared to hot lava and two headed dogs.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hey whats going on rainy

i have to say i don't approve of you printing out this hoohah though. i am the lorax, i speak for the trees. kidding

― ron (ron), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You need your daily allowance of me.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, Hanle y you're still here! That's excellent! (And you Ron, but I feel telepathically connected to you anyway.)

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Rainy, what do you think of "Hey Ya!"?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it. It makes me happy. Outkast can do no wrong in my world.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you that is correct!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds very strange to me. Printing out ILX and reading it? THat would destroy its butterfly nature for me.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know Rainy (you!) at all but the legend seems to be a great one, so it would be nice if you came back here. Plus you like Outkast, so yay rainy!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I post to ILX in my dreams. Surprisingly, I don't have near as many posts as kate or ned!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Dastoor's idea of continuing ILX by snail mail. Somedays you would get slim envelops of dick jokes, other days you would get a huge box of paper and get all excited, but then realize it was all from Momus and be disappointed.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I eat a dozen citrus fruits per day, and ITS KILLING ME.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

hey rainy, cookie glass? Am I remembering correctly?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wish you had written a response at the bottom of the printout, Rainy - it would have been the most adorable thing ever. Also, please hang around and post quite a lot!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

cooky glass, I believe, jel!

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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